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A weekly podcast by The India Today Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa that dissects and simplifies one important news story. While the availability of several narratives from different sources distorts the news in this plethora of news information, often leaving readers perplexed, this show aims to untangle the story by providing a factual analysis to the viewers.
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Two years after brutal violence, the North-Eastern state is split into militarised ethnic enclaves. What can be done to resolve this protracted conflict.
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The inside story of the NDA war room and how it created an electoral earthquake.
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The Delhi Car Bomb attack exposes a dangerous turn as radicalised professionals target Indian cities. How India can respond to this threat?
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Sound mixed by Suraj Singh
With Donald Trump announcing that the US will start testing its weapons again, it will trigger a dangerous arms race. Should India resume nuke tests too?
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India Today’s Raj Chengappa answers the 4 big questions about the MGB’s CM hopeful:
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Can Tejashwi’s rainbow caste coalition triumph?
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Will his job-for-all win the youth?
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Can he shake of his father, Lalu’s ‘Jungle Raj’ image?
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Does he have the leadership qualities to be a CM?
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In his most detailed interview, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, India’s first astronaut to live in the International Space Station, talks extensively of his incredible space journey.
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Who will win the upcoming Bihar assembly elections? That’s the big question as the high stakes poll battle gets under way. There are 243 seats up for grabs and the target for any party or alliance is to secure a simple majority of 122 seats to rule this important state. There are close to 80 million voters that will decide just who governs them.
As Bihar goes to polls on November 6 and 11, an in-depth analysis of the 10 key factors that will determine the outcome of the high stakes battle by Raj Chengappa with ace poll strategist Amitabh Tiwari.
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Will the Modi Government’s Rs 76,000 crore high risk initiative to make India self-reliant in semiconductor chips pay off? Plus exclusive interview with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw.
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As Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign a major defence pact, analysis with top Middle East expert Ausaf Sayeed, ex MEA secretary, as to whether this is a Muslim-NATO pact and its impact on India.
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Why Nepal’s youth rebelled and toppled the political establishment, what lies ahead for Nepal and what it means for India?
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The key Indian businesses hardest hit by the heavy Trump Tariffs, the challenges they face and the opportunities to find new markets.
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Sound Mix by Aman
How has PM Modi performed? Can the Opposition led by Rahul Gandhi dent the BJP? What are the biggest achievements and failures of the Modi government? Is the economy up or down?
Insights to all the burning questions on India Today's Mood of the Nation Poll with Yashwant Deshmukh, C-Voter
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Sound Mix by Rohan Bharti
How to make India’s micro entrepreneurs both local and global champions. Plus insights from top grampreneur expert Lakshmi V. Venkatesan.
Show produced by Nikhil Khattar
Sound mix by Suraj Singh
The IT Sector, India’s biggest jobs generator, sees massive layoffs, forcing firms to restructure or face obsolescence. What’s behind the big churn? Exclusive interview with NASSCOM chief Rajesh Nambiar.
How Modi can counter the Aggro Trump Trade Offensive
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With US President Donald Trump imposing a hefty 25 per cent tariffs on Indian exports to America will India buckle or fightback
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NDA vs MGB: Which alliance is best positioned to win the upcoming Bihar assembly polls? Analysis with special VoteVibe opinion poll by Amitabh Tiwari.
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What the Tata-owned airline needs to do to regain trust and credibility after the Ahmedabad crash
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Why Shubhanshu Shukla’s voyage signals India’s ambition to join the big boys of space exploration.
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Sound mixed by Aman Pal
Why Donald Trump’s Bunker-Busting Strategy Will Not Defuse Nuclear Tensions In the Region?
How the Trump clampdown slams the door on aspiring Indian students.
Produced by Prateek Lidhoo
Sound mix by Aman Pal
What the US special court ruling knocking down Trump’s high tariffs means for India.
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Sound mix by Aman Pal
Donald Trump said India and Pakistan were on the brink of a nuclear war - how close were we really to it? What are the dangers ahead?
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Sound mix by Suraj Singh
A look at how India's bold military stance is reshaping its approach to Pakistan—and what it signals for the future.
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India’s bold response to the Pahalgam terror attack with Operation Sindoor marks a new threshold in Indo-Pak military confrontation, risking full-scale war.
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Sound mix by Aman Pal
His Islamic nationalism and Anti-India line make him a dangerous foe.
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Sound mix by Rohan Bharti
How India can make Pakistan Pay for the Pahalgam terror attack
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Sound mix by Aman Pal
On the spot report of how the Modi Government is winning the war against Naxals plus an exclusive interview with Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Is the Colour of Your Skin the New Caste? Join the nationwide debate on this shameful bias
India's neighbour is at a critical crossroads, whether political, economic and religious. Top Bangladesh Editor Mahfuz Anam analyses the challenges
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A pioneering survey reveals startling truths about the civic and social attitudes of Indians
Will Putin and Zelensky heed Trump's push for peace? Analysis with top foreign policy expert Pankaj Saran
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The Descent of Pakistan: The Baloch Train Hijack is a grim portent of the multiple internal conflicts that Pakistan faces, which threaten its very stability as a nation. Analysis With Top Security Expert Tilak Devasher.
Exclusive with Mike Pompeo, ex US Secretary of State, on how India should deal with Trump and win!
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The deadly non-alcoholic fatty liver disease afflicts one out of three Indians. Top liver specialist, Dr. S.K. Sarin on how to protect yourself
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Sound mix by Rohan Bharti
Exclusive insights from India Today's biannual survey covering politics, economics, and social issues.
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Sound mix by Rohan Bharti
Why massive deregulation is the key to higher economic growth for India. Exclusive interview with V. Anantha Nageswaran, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India.
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Sound mix by Rohan Bharti
Exclusive insights from Yashwant Deshmukh of C-Voter on major trends that will determine who will win the Delhi polls.
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Sound mix by Suraj Singh
Five innovations that have transformed every day lives of Indians.
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High inflation, taxes and a wage slump have hit the 570 million middle class Indians hard. What Budget 2025 can do for them.
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Sound mix by Nitin Rawat
The damage Donald Trump's radical immigration proposals could inflict on Indian techies and the H-1B visas.
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At home, the PM has to come up with bold reforms to rev up a slowing economy and ensure equitable growth. Abroad, Modi has to find a way to strike a deal with Trump on his tariffs and migration grouses against India.
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There were 17 personalities and events who made the cut in 2024. Look out for the surprise choice
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Events and personalities who inspired India to achieve great heights
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The rising Islamist radicalism in Bangladesh raises concerns in India even as persecution of Hindus continues.
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What's behind RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's call to Indian couples to have three children and not stop at two
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With the big Maharashtra victory, PM Modi can now go full speed ahead with radical reforms.
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After the vote, a ground-level analysis of who is ahead in the big Maharashtra assembly polls
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How toxic office practices in India are seriously damaging employee health, causing even death
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How India should deal with Trump. Raj Chengappa explains.
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Raj Chengappa analyses the significance of the thaw in relations between Indian PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping with Ashok Kantha, a top Indo-China expert.
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Raj Chengappa in conversation with Sahil Joshi, Managing Editor, Aaj Tak Mumbai Bureau, on key factors that will determine the outcome of the watershed Maharashtra assembly elections.
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The new CM faces daunting challenges including a sharp divide between Jammu and Kashmir and the Centre still holding the key levers of power.
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Will the Israel-Iran conflict blow up into a regional war?
How will it impact India and the World? Raj Chengappa, with India’s top Middle East expert Syed Akbaruddin, answers the big questions.
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India has one of the highest highway accident fatalities in the world. What needs to be done to save lives
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The BJP seeks electoral supremacy, the Valley leaders, a return to autonomy
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Top experts on what more we need to do to bring about a solar energy revolution in India.
Experts:
• Amit Singh, CEO, Adani Green Energy
• Praveer Sinha, CEO & MD, Tata Power
• Sumant Sinha, Chairman, ReNew
• Dr. Arunabha Ghosh, CEO, CEEW
• Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, CMD, Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd.
• Vineet Mittal, Chairman, Avaada Energy
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Nitin Gadkari on what will power tomorrow's vehicles in Nothing But the Truth with Raj Chengappa
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Why the upcoming presidential polls are a major turning point for troubled Sri Lanka. Plus, an exclusive interview with frontrunner Sajith Premadasa, SJB leader!
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India's biannual Mood of the Nation Poll reveals significant political, economic, and social trends. Raj Chengappa is joined by Yashwant Deshmukh, Founder of C-Voter.
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Is PM Narendra Modi's vision of a Viksit Bharat or India as a developed country by 2047 doable?
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Raj Chengappa looks at the stunning meltdown of the Sheikh Hasina regime in Bangladesh and why it is a huge diplomatic and strategic setback for India.
Also how the Modi government should update and reinvent its 'Neighbourhood First' policy to meet the new challenges.
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Will the nine-month Gaza war now turn into a debilitating Middle East conflict?
Raj Chengappa, in conversation with Talmiz Ahmad, ex-Indian ambassador.
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Will the Modi government’s initiative for massive job creation work?
Raj Chengappa explains.
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Pakistan unleashes a fresh game of terror by opening a whole new theatre of militancy in the Jammu region. How should India deal with this dangerous challenge?
Raj Chengappa in conversation with Lt Gen D.S. Hooda, former Northern Army Commander, who led India’s Uri Surgical Strikes against Pakistan in 2016
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The big takeaways from the recent Modi-Putin summit - the positives and negatives. Raj Chengappa analyses the outcome with Pankaj Saran, former Indian ambassador to Russia and ex-Deputy National Security Adviser
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Evaluating the all-new avatar of Rahul Gandhi as Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and what he stands for or doesn’t, with brand and business strategy specialist Harish Bijoor and political commentator Amitabh Tiwari.
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Will the landslide victory in the UK General Election by the Labour Party headed by Keir Starmer be good for India, or would relations worsen as they did in the past?
Raj Chengappa analyses Labour’s return with Gaitri Issar Kumar, former Indian HC to the UK.
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As serious leaks and lapses disrupt four national exams and the future of millions of Indian students, how to reform the National Testing Agency and make entrance examinations 100 per cent foolproof.
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A sneak preview of India Today magazine's annual guide to academic excellence
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Key priorities for the new NDA coalition government
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Indian voters give Narendra Modi a historic third term without a majority, forcing him to form a coalition government. Can Modi 3.0 deliver, or will it run aground and fall?
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Five-times Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik faces a fierce battle with the BJP to become India's longest serving Chief Minister or see his 24-year rule come to an end.
How and Why have caste quotas become the most fractious and polarising issue in this election, and what will be its impact on the final outcome
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The community is now centre stage in the discourse on Election 2024. Raj Chengappa discusses the impact with BJP leader Shazia Ilmi and Congress leader Shama Mohamed.
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With votes cast for over half the Lok Sabha seats, what are the big trends? Is BJP on track to win a hat trick? Can the India bloc cause an upset? Psephologist Yashwant Deshmukh of C-Voter in conversation with Raj Chengappa.
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Why the battle for Maharashtra will be a game changer in Election 2024
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The big debate on unemployment and inequity and its impact on voting results.
Insights from top economic experts Surjit Bhalla and Subhash Garg.
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The vote of the 210 million-strong Generation Viksit Bharat in the 18-29 age group will be decisive for Election 2024
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Shashi Tharoor vs Rajeev Chandrashekhar - The Big Fight for Thiruvananthapuram
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Can ex-IPS officer Annamalai succeed in his mission to make BJP win Tamil Nadu?
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The three major strategies in the Opposition Gameplan to topple the PM and the BJP.
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What's the BJP's 2024 Gameplan to win 400+ seats and will it work. Raj Chengappa in conversation with political strategist and psephologist Amitabh Tiwari.
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With PM Modi setting a whopping target for his party for General Election 2024, Raj Chengappa in conversation with ace psephologist Pradeep Gupta of Axis MyIndia, analyses what are the big challenges the ruling party faces to win a record third consecutive majority on its own.
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Ozympic and its cousins, Wegovy and Rybelsus, are taking the world and India by storm, not just for effectively treating diabetes and obesity but also for inducing rapid weight loss. But its indiscriminate use is dangerous.
Raj Chengappa explains.
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The Inside Story of how the two poster boys of India's startup ecosystem - PayTM and Byju's scaled great heights and then scripted their own downfall.
Raj Chengappa explains.
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The country is losing an alarming 50 percent of its avian species due to shrinking forests and wetlands, climate change and human apathy.
Raj Chengappa is joined by Vivek Menon, the co-founder of the Wildlife Trust of India to discuss.
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With the Supreme Court striking down Electoral Bonds, what are the measures needed to reform poll financing?
Raj Chengappa explains.
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After a fractured verdict in Election 2024, Shehbaz Sharif is set to take over as Pakistan PM again. He has to tackle economic collapse, soaring inflation, defiant Imran Khan supporters, and a domineering Army.
Raj Chengappa explains.
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Raj Chengappa brings you the key findings of the latest India Today’s nationwide poll which party win the crucial 2024 General Election and why.
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The 5 major reasons that saw the major Opposition Alliance fall apart including the recent exit of its prime mover Bihar CM Nitish Kumar. Raj Chengappa lists.
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Can the Great Hindu Revival usher in Ram Rajya?
In this episode of Nothing but the Truth, Raj Chengappa looks at the big questions that the new Ram Mandir throws up. How will it impact India and can this usher Ram Rajya or rule of the just as many BJP and RSS leaders said it would?
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As Male pushes for 'India Out', what are Delhi's options? Raj Chengappa explains.
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Raj Chengappa in conversation with top Indian AI expert Srikanth Velamakanni on everything you wanted to know about AI’s promise and peril.
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The management mantras of Narendra Modi and why the Prime Minister is India Today’s Newsmaker of the Year 2023.
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Raj Chengappa deals with all the nine avatars of Modi which have made him politically so highly successful.
Do the three new criminal laws enacted by Parliament bring radical change? Or are they just old wine wrapped in a Bharat bottle?
Top experts Dr Sulkhan Singh, former DGP of UP and Siddharth Luthra, senior Supreme Court advocate, join Raj Chengappa in analysing the pros and cons.
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Answers to all the key questions on the way forward after the historic SC verdict, including holding J&K assembly polls, restoration of statehood, dealing with Pakistan and the proposed truth and reconciliation commission with top national security expert Amitabh Mattoo.
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With three big wins in heartland states, is it game, set, and match for PM Modi and the BJP for a third successive term at the Centre?
A SWOT analysis by Raj Chengappa!
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New research shows that air pollution wreaks not only your lungs but also damages key organs in your body - the brain, heart, kidneys, pancreas - apart from causing diabetes and cancer.
Indian cities are among the most polluted in the world. We have to clean the air around us urgently or suffer dire health consequences.
Raj Chengappa explains.
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For the first time, the audio recording of India Today Magazine's exclusive interview with Telangana CM K. Chandrashekar Rao, as he faces his ultimate test - to win a third successive term.
KCR speaks candidly to Raj Chengappa, about PM Modi, Parivarvaad, Corruption charges, Congress betrayal claims, and his image of being an authoritarian leader.
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As Bollywood celebs, politicians and a host of others fall prey, Raj Chengappa gets into an exclusive interaction with Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Union Minister of State for Infotech, on the new and dangerous Weapon of Mass Deception and what India needs to do to prevent its escalation.
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The Telangana strongman has to battle anti-incumbency and a reborn Congress to win a third successive term.
After Telangana was formed, KCR has won two successive assembly elections with full majorities. But can the 69-year-old mercurial leader score a hat-trick of wins and return as chief minister for the third time?
Raj Chengappa explains in this episode of Nothing But The Truth.
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With two big wars raging - Israel-Gaza and Russia-Ukraine - top foreign policy experts Syed Akbaruddin and B. Venkatesh Varma analyse the dangers of a possible global conflagration.
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The results of the 5 states going to the polls shortly – Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram - will set the tone and narrative for Lok Sabha 2024. Yashwant Deshmukh of C-Voter tells you why.
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Nawaz Sharif, three-time Pakistan PM, returns after four humiliating years in exile and the fall of Imran Khan. Can he become PM again for a record fourth term?
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa looks at the new political power game in Pakistan, analyses the significance of Nawaz Sharif’s return to the centre stage and the challenges he faces.
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How to protect yourself from being robbed of your money through your phone!
In this episode, we look at how your phone has increasingly become an instrument in the hands of criminals to rob you of your hard earned money. And then tell you what you can do to protect yourself.
Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa is joined by India’s top cyber security expert, Dr Gulshan Rai, who also advised the prime minister for India, to give us insights.
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What we are all watching in Israel are tragic scenes of death and devastation. Hamas militants fired more than 5,000 missiles on major Israeli population centres, accompanied by land and sea offensives. The attack left more than 1,200 Israelis dead and another 2,700 wounded.
What was astounding was the failure of the Israeli defence, intelligence and security apparatus. Israel had in the past few decades had built up a fearsome reputation of its ability to defend itself and launch pre-emptive strikes against groups antagonistic to its interests, such as the Hamas.
But with the Hamas attack, the Israeli intelligence network seemed to have no inkling of the Hamas’s plans to launch such a massive attack.
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa answers the big questions: Why Hamas Struck? Will the War Spread? How Will it Impact India and the World?
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The Opposition will use the Bihar caste findings on OBCs to unleash a fresh wave of Mandal politics to disrupt the BJP's Hindutva consolidation strategy for 2024. But can it work?
What's behind the diplomatic face-off between Modi and Trudeau, and will it turn even nastier.
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In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa answers the key questions: Why did PM Modi enact the women’s quota bill at the fag end of his second term and not earlier? When will women enjoy the reservation quota that they have been promised?
Will women’s legislation politically benefit the PM and the Bhartiya Janta Party or BJP for the upcoming state assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Telangana? And will it give the BJP a decisive edge in the 2024 General Elections?
Listen in to Raj Chengappa's in-depth analysis of the Modi Government's historic legislation to politically empower Indian women, including the challenges and battles ahead.
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What’s in a name? Well plenty it seems when it comes to the name of a country. For 76 years most of us have been comfortable using India or Bharat to refer to our great nation. In general parlance, India was used while speaking in English and Bharat while speaking in Hindi.
Now there is huge debate over giving pre-eminence of all official communication to the word Bharat in place of India. The controversy throws up a lot of questions: Why did the debate suddenly hot up? What’s behind the timing – is it politically motivated? What is the origin of the two names – India vs Bharat? What is its historical usage? And what is the way forward?
In this episode of Nothing But the Truth, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa answers all these questions as objectively as possible.
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The Geopolitical Divide Deepens as Xi and Putin skip summit but India gets Global South Centre-stage. Why Delhi G20 matters.
When India assumed the G20 presidency late last year, the world was already in a state of deep disorder. It was, in fact, in free fall as a war provoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—now in its 19th month—saw big powers line up dangerously against each other.
This was immediately after the Covid-19 pandemic had gutted not just lives but even the economies of nations, sparking a process of deglobalisation that had begun over a decade ago.
But as the summit neared, there were three big power game on, that would leave the G2 deeply divided even before the summit began.
What were these three power games?
Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa explains.
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In an exclusive interview with ISRO Chairman Dr. S. Somanath, Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa speaks about the big outcomes of Chandrayaan-3 and India's space plans ahead.
With Chandrayaan's triumph, Somanath discusses its significance for India and how the data from Chandrayaan 3 will shape future scientific endeavors. He sheds light on the uniqueness of upcoming solar missions and the uncharted territories they aim to explore, marking a pioneering venture. Also, Somanath explores the promising prospects of lunar exploration, emphasizing the collaborative agreements with nations like the United States, including the Artemis project.
As we contemplate "What's next after Chandrayaan?", this conversation unveils a fascinating glimpse into the boundless possibilities that lie beyond our celestial doorstep.
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What India Today's latest Mood-Of-The-Nation Poll reveals?
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the big question is will Prime Minister Narendra Modi secure a third term?
The survey found that 52 per cent of the respondents said that PM Modi is best suited to be the next Prime Minister, while 16% of respondents voted for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
What are its other major findings?
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa is joined by Yashwant Deshmukh, the director and founding editor of CVoter, to discuss these in detail.
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In this episode, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa lists the 10 Big Things India needs to do in Amrit Kaal to become a developed country by 2047.
What would it take for India to be a developed nation when it celebrates 100 years of Independence?
A developed nation is defined as a country that demonstrates sustainable economic growth with a robust and has an efficient transport and communications infrastructure. It necessarily entails a well-rounded human development index, reflecting a uniformly high standard of living with a healthy and well-educated citizenry. These countries have a high per capita incomes averaging $20,000 (nearly Rs 16.7 lakh) annually or more. Currently there are around 37 countries that are identified as developed countries.
India currently has a per capita income of $2,400 (Rs 2 lakh), which, according to the World Bank standard, puts us in the class of lower-middle-income economies, where the per capita income ranges from $1,136 to $4,465 (approximately Rs 94,400-Rs 3.7 lakh). We are, therefore, in the same boat as Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
The per capita income in China, whose GDP at $18 trillion is nearly six times India’s $3.4 trillion and whose population has now become second to ours, is $12,800 (approx. Rs 10.6 lakh). That places it in the upper-middle-income category but not in the league of developed nations.
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For close to three months now Manipur has been burning. The law-and-order machinery of the state has completely collapsed. There is now a virtual civil war between the two dominant communities in the state: The Meiteis and the Kukis. The state police force have taken sides. As a result heavily armed vigilantes from both communities now impose their writ on the districts that they have a majority in.
What is evident is that a series of blunders were omitted both by the state and Central authorities that led to such a tragic and shameful deterioration of the state.
Why cant the Centre ask Biren Singh to go? After all he is presiding over a failed state? The final resort is President’s rule – why shouldn’t the Centre have imposed it? And, what do we expect next?
To discuss why things have gone so terribly wrong in Manipur and what needs to be done, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa is joined by India Today magazine’s executive editor Kaushik Deka. Kaushik is an acknowledged experts in Northeastern Affairs and is editor of India Today’s website for the region. He has also just returned after spending a week in Manipur travelling around the region and talking to a cross section of people. And he has just written a cover story for India Today magazine on the subject in the latest issue.
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Till now the start-up sector has been the pride of India. India now has the third largest start-up eco-system in the world, next only to the US and China. It has as many as 108 Unicorns or those start-ups that have a valuation of more than one billion dollars. Again, this number is the third largest in the world. We have all become familiar with their names. Byjus, Meeshu, Oyo, Ola, Unacademy, Nyka, Swiggy’s, Zomato and Pharmeasy are just some examples.
But, unfortunately, this success story is in deep trouble and many of these famed start-ups are experiencing a steep fall in valuations.
So why did this sector lose its sheen? What caused the fall? And what can be done about it?
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa is joined by Tech Guru Kris Gopalakrishnan who explains why the valuation and funding of Indian start-ups have plummeted and what are his mantras for success.
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India launched its ambitious Chandrayaan-3 mission to the Moon. The spacecraft launched aboard India's heaviest rocket, Launch vehicle Mark-III a.k.a LVM3 on a journey to the Moon. The spacecraft will complete the 3,84,000 kilometers-long journey in nearly 45 days to attempt a soft-landing on the Moon by the end of August.
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa lists the exciting experiments Indian space scientists have lined up when it lands on the lunar surface.
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The Bhartiya Janata Party or the BJP delivered a political masterstroke in Maharashtra last week that stunned the Opposition parties. A year ago on June 30, it broke the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government that had been ruling the state since 2019 and formed its own government. This is it did by splitting the Shiv Sena and winning over Eknath Shinde and band of 39 Shiv Sena MLAs an anointing him chief minister of the new alliance that they formed with it.
On July 2, BJP played another ace by weaning away the leader of the Opposition Ajit Pawar along with a major chunk of the National Congress Party or NCP. Ajit Pawar was made a deputy chief minister and eight others NCP MLAs were sworn in as cabinet ministers.
So, in this episode of Nothing But the Truth, Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa analyses why the strike against the NCP in Maharashtra is part of the larger BJP strategy to win the 2024 General Election.
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Analysing the chances of the nascent national alliance of 15 Opposition parties to defeat the BJP in the 2024 General Election. Listen in!
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The inside story of the innovative political strategy the Congress evolved to register a spectacular victory over BJP in Karnataka and the lessons from it. Listen in!
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With drug resistant TB cases and deaths surging in India, the battle to eradicate the dreaded disease by 2025 gets tougher! Listen in!
The BJP and Congress are locked in a do-or-die duel in Karnataka to remain electorally relevant in the South. What are the key factors that will determine the outcome of the election? | Listen in!
The UP CM's crackdown on the mafia was popular, but the brazen murder of the notorious gang lord Atiq Ahmed in custody threatens to discredit his drive | Listen in!
NCERT's controversial deletions of significant passages in school textbooks on Indian history stoke fears of the politicisation of education | Tune in!
India's 2,000 year old world famous cave murals is in peril because of poor preservation policies and unbridled tourism. Raj Chengappa discusses with ace photographer Raghu Rai and conservationist Gurmeet Rai on what needs to be urgently done to save it. Listen in!
With the state's assembly poll to be held on May 10, three top psephologists analyse why the election is important for the BJP and the Congress and the key factors that could determine the outcome! Listen in!
The 4Ds: Democracy, Demography, Digitisation, and Deglobalisation are critical to India's progress. Raj Chengappa discusses with Amitabh Kant, G 20 Sherpa, and P.T.R. Thiagarajan's Tamil Nadu's erudite finance and human resources minister, India's progress or regress in these 4 key areas of development.
As ex PM Imran Khan plunges the country into political chaos even as the economy tanks, answers to the key questions: What is Imran's gameplan, how will PM Shehbaz Sharif counter it, will the Pakistan Army take over and how India views the crisis! Listen in!
Why the findings of a huge deposit of Lithium in Jammu could lead to India's moment in advanced battery technology and self sufficiency in EV power
Rising Sikh radicalism and a barrage of political, economic, and social crises assail Bhagwant Mann’s AAP government in Punjab. What the beleagured CM needs to do arrest the state’s descent into chaos
Over one million Chinese made CCTVs installed in Indian government set-ups can be tapped by Beijing for spying, and now pose a serious national security threat! Tune in!
Why Pathaan became the biggest ever Hindi film blockbuster and will Shah Rukh Khan's mega comeback endure? Listen in!
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Will the Modi government’s massive capex infusion help tackle India’s serious unemployment crisis?
How has the Bharat Jodo Yatra helped Rahul Gandhi get an image makeover? Why does the real challenge for the Congress begin once the yatra ends on January 30? Raj Chengappa explains. Tune in!
Raj Chengappa in conversation with ace psephologist Pradeep Gupta of Axis My India. Tune in!
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth Raj Chengappa analyses the results of India Today's annual State of The States survey along with special guests Abhishek Agrawal of MDRA research agency and Kaushik Deka of India Today. Listen in!
In this episode, Raj Chengappa analyses the BJP’s prospects of a third term at the Centre and why the historic win in Gujarat will bolster its chances. Listen in!
In this fragmented and somewhat chaotic post-Covid world, India has been given the opportunity to take the lead in driving a consensus on key global issues. In this episode, Raj Chengappa analyses the key areas and issues the Indian government is focussing on to make its presidency among the most successful ever. Listen in!
Raj Chengappa examines what is the strategy of PM Modi and the BJP to retain his home state of Gujarat with a big win. Listen in!
In this episode of Nothing But The Truth, India Today Group Editorial Director (Publishing) Raj Chengappa analyses why the successful launch of the country's first private rocket, Vikram-S, was important. Listen in!
Is the pandemic on its way out? Should we say bye-bye to it and drop our masks and live life as we did before Covid struck us? Raj Chengappa analyses. Listen in!
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Bengaluru: From Boom to Bust? How India's Best City Is Being Ruined! Raj Chengappa explains. Tune in!
The Opposition is now gearing up for the 2024 battle and for once is doing so much in advance. What are the three major developments that have boosted the chances for the Opposition and will they aid in toppling the ruling party? Raj Chengappa decodes. Listen in!
What is the PFI and what does the government ban mean? Raj Chengappa explains. Listen in!
How is cancer caused and what is its new hope for cure? Raj Chengappa discusses. Tune in!
70 years after it was hunted to extinction, the big cat returns to India's wild. What it will take to make it survive? Raj Chengappa explains. Tune in!
Half of the e-waste these products generate is iron and steel, 21 percent plastic and 13 percent copper, aluminium and precious metals. In this episode, Raj Chengappa examines the crippling effects of e-waste and how to tackle it. Tune in!
In this episode, Raj Chengappa evaluates the great debate that is currently raging across the country: Goodies for votes or genuine welfare? Listen up!
In this episode Raj Chengappa looks at how the coming of 5G will transform and revolutionise the way we communicate with each other. Tune in now!
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We scrutinise if the Agnipath scheme is the best way to go and why is there so much angst and anger among applicants and ex-servicemen and are these justified. Tune in!
The in-depth story of why Khan was freed and how the narcotic law needs to be amended to prevent persecution. Tune in!
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As Pakistan goes through a major political convulsion, we answer the four pertinent questions that have a plethora of relevance for India and the world.
Pinpointing the pertinent reasons that led to the dramatic downfall of Imran Khan as Pakistan prime minister